PRODUCT VISION · SYSTEMS · LEADERSHIP

Ugur Erden. Systems designed. Products delivered.

I created DMS, VMS, and OPSLASH, designed their architecture and core algorithms, and led the development teams that completed all three software products.

Selected work
UE  /  PEOPLE · PROCESS · EVIDENCE
Portrait of Ugur Erden
01 / SYSTEMS & PRACTICE

Systems & Practice

Selected work from operations, product design, and software. Each example links to the dated writing behind it.

Logistics, teams, and real-world workflows.

A Roadmap Needs Its Source Trail

On July 9, 2026, a delivery-management software research discussion turned into a request to preserve findings in one evolving Markdown record rather than lose details between files.

02 / WRITING & RESEARCH

Latest writing

October 21, 2026 · reflection

Not Every Improvement Needs a New Skill

Before adding another Skill, determine whether the request needs a patch, a checklist, a reusable capability, or a genuinely separate boundary.

October 21, 2026 · reflection

The Chat Ended. The Project Didn't.

Long-running work needs a durable checkpoint, a decision trail, and one safe next action that survives the chat window.

October 20, 2026 · reflection

Who Gets the Final Word in an AI Team?

A useful AI team separates the roles of routing, doing, reviewing, and authorizing rather than pretending every agent has final authority.

03 / TECHNICAL STUDIES

Hands-on projects, documented from idea to result.

April 2026 · documented work

From Song to Music Video

A music-video workflow: listening to rhythm, reading the lyrics, planning scenes, generating visual directions and controlling versions.

January 2026 · related work

AI Systems & Agent Workflows

Agent architecture, retrieval workflows, connected tools and explicit human checkpoints across several AI engineering projects.

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